Looking Back, Looking Forward
This is the 400th article I have published on this website. Nice round numbers feel like milestones; they inspire us to reflect and to look forward, so that is what I will do today.
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An Old Easter Egg
By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, Featured, Historians Revisited No Comments
Here’s a special article by Egbert T. Bush in celebration of Easter. As usual, Mr. Bush manages to include some genealogy—this time the Case and Hewitt families.
The Cook Proprietary Tract
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Featured, Moore, Sandbrook, Sutton, Taylor 5 Comments Tags: early settlers, proprietors
The Hammond Maps of Hunterdon County proprietary tracts are a wonderful resource for county historians. Many of the property owners shown on these maps drawn by D. Stanton Hammond in 1963 were the first Europeans to claim title to this part of the state of New Jersey. What happened to those properties in succeeding years has always fascinated me and provided wonderful material for my articles.
The Sine Farm
By Marfy Goodspeed in Dalrymple, Delaware Township, Featured, Holcombe, Kitchen, Moore, Sandbrook, Sine, Sutton No Comments Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, land titles
For the final installment of my study of the Haddon Tract,1 I am turning to the remainder of the property that was left to Nicholas Sine. As a reminder, Nicholas Signe/Sayn/Sine was a partner with another German immigrant, Jacob Sniter, in the 1748 purchase of 1300 acres of the Haddon Tract, a 2,000-acre plot that was surveyed for John Haddon in 1711. Daniel Robins had purchased the other 700 acres.
Hoppock Farm Over 600 Acres
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Featured, Hoppock 1 Comment Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, land titles, roads
Not long ago I published some articles about properties located in what was once known as The Haddon Tract (The Haddon Tract, part one). Today’s article by Egbert T. Bush concerns a very large farm located in that tract that I have not yet written about. It was sold by Jacob Sniter and Nicholas Sayn to John Peter Foxe of Amwell, who subsequently sold it to Jost Hoppock in 1749.
Pysong & Peartree
By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Delaware Township, Featured 1 Comment Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, houses, roads, The Revolution
This is part two of a series on some of the properties created in the Haddon Tract of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County.
Jacob Peter Sniter and Nicholas Sayn jointly purchased 1300 acres in Amwell Township from Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh in 1748. The two men sold off several lots and then divided the land remaining between them. Part One dealt with Nicholas Sayn/Sine, who acquired the southern half. This article deals with Jacob Peter Sniter who got the northern half.
Haddon Tract, part one
By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Featured, Hunterdon County, Sine, West New Jersey 5 Comments Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, land titles, maps, proprietors
I have recently finished reading a book titled Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, 1680-1762, Building the Quaker Community of Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1701-1762, by Jeffery M. Dorwart and Elizabeth A. Lyons.
It is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the life of one of West New Jersey’s early settlers—a young woman who came to the Province on her own in 1701.
A 1777 Campground
By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Delaware Township, Featured, Historians Revisited, Holcombe, J. M. Hoppock, Sandbrook No Comments Tags: The Revolution
Camp Ground of the Glorious Old Continental Army in 1777
by Jonathan M. Hoppock
originally published in the Democrat-Advertiser, Oct. 10, 1901
From the photograph and from Hoppock’s description, it appears that this “campground” was located along Route 523 near Sand Brook.
Farewell, Relic of Another Age
By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Featured, Historians Revisited, Moore 6 Comments Tags: Going, houses
Burning of the Old Wagner Homestead Prompts
Mr. Bush to Cite Its History
Was Prized By Its Owners
by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.
published in the Hunterdon Co. Democrat, January 19, 1933
Note: This article was published two years after Mr. Bush’s previous article on the Moore homestead plantation, “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon.”
The Two John Barbers
By Marfy Goodspeed in Barber, Bowne Station, Delaware Township, Featured 4 Comments Tags: Civil War, politics
In the early 1860s, two men named John Barber got involved on opposite sides of the question – should the country support Lincoln’s prosecution of the Civil War, or should it not?1
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